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'Ms Minister, Pl explain why you
should not be arrested?'
WSN Network
AHMEDABAD: Narendra Modi's minister for women and child
welfare herself needs a lot of help, and of course only men of the
mental make up of Modi can provide it. She has already been found to
be leading rioters and killers and now the Gujarat High Court has
given her just five days to explain why her anticipatory bail should
not be cancelled and she be arrested and investigated by the Supreme
Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). Maya Kodnani, who
at one stage was declared an absconder while remaining a minister
under Modi, was involved in the Naroda Patiya and Naroda Gam
killings.
She and former VHP leader Dr Jaideep Patel face same charges.
Before admitting the appeal filed by the SIT, on behalf of
the state government, against granting of anticipatory bail to the
two Sangh leaders, Justice D.H. Waghela, asked one question of the
prosecution: “How many people had died in the two incidents in which
the leaders are accused?”
To this public prosecutor K.M. Panchal replied: “In the
Naroda Patiya case 95 had been killed, three are missing and 38 were
injured; while in the Naroda Gam case 11 had been killed and eight
were injured.”
In its appeal filed before the court last week, the SIT had
said that during its investigations “it had been revealed that
Kodnani had fired from her pistol and it had been further revealed
that she came in her car and had distributed swords to the mob
(which attacked the two localities resulting into the deaths)”. The
SIT made this disclosure on the basis of statements of riot victims.
Kodnani, a 53-year-old gynaecologist, faces arrest in both
the cases of killings which resulted in deaths of 106 people, while
Patel, a 55-year-old pathologist, faces arrest in the Naroda Gam
killings. Kodnani and Patel were granted anticipatory bail on
February 5 by the Ahmedabad sessions court after the SIT told the
court that “it did not require the accused for further
investigations”.
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February 2009
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